TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Rangers Should Range–but Fear & Adrenalin Can Make Them Kill’ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Point Blank:‘Was’ with apologies to Mister Faulkner Damon Falke “Lonely are the Brave”…revisited Based on Edward Abbey’s book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ we…
PREFACE: The events in Ferguson, Missouri remind me of a moment in my own brief career in law enforcement, as a ranger with the National Park Service at Arches NP. I wrote this account in 2005, years after the confrontation…
First, I couldn’t find my sunglasses. We were headed out the door. Jim was halfway to the car, and I suddenly realized I couldn’t find them. They weren’t on their normal perch with the car keys in the kitchen, not…
NOTE: This is a story about the film ‘Lonely are the Brave,’ based on the book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ by Edward Abbey and my efforts to find, in 2014, the original film locations from the 1961 production. In searching for those…
“We might expect a peculiar change in the mentality of the world in the next fifty to one hundred years.” – Carl Jung, 1929 I believe that Jack Burns, a character in several of Edward Abbey’s novels, is in effect…
Klein, Naomi (2014-09-16). This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. “[B]ottom line[:] our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms…
“What would be a normal planet would have a lot fewer people and lots more animals, and what we have now is an irregular, abnormal, and dangerous condition.” – Gary Snyder, 2010 In a way this story is painful…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… Most of the photos included in this issue – and I’m including…
It should be difficult for any of us to write about where we grew-up, to write about where we call home, or where we once called home. There are the expected trappings of sentiment and the near constant questioning of…
The Bright Angel Lodge, Grand Canyon 1950 2014 Cameron Trading Post, Arizona 1950 2014 HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian…
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My first decade (1929-1939) was spent growing up in Idaho. My second decade of life (1940-1949) was set in Utah. Incidences, experiences, environment, and heritage all shape one’s life, and so, pardon me as l divert a bit from…
The Zephyr is honored to present selected images from TOM TILL’s remarkable book, “Then & Now.” Balanced Rock Visit Tom Till’s Website. To see the PDF version of this page, click here. To comment, scroll to…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles Getting the Facts Right, Part 1…RE: MOAB’S RECENT POLITICAL PAST SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles How to Be a Witness DAN O’CONNOR’S ‘TWISTED TABLOIDS’ ‘Billionaire Bonderman Takes Vow of Poverty!’ The Zephyr Chronicles part 4—Jim Stiles…
“For many, this is deja-vu. Grand County has been through this before. And, we know how to deal with it.” —Chris Baird, candidate for Grand County Council (explaining his recall petition to remove Lynn Jackson from office.) Sometimes I…
Lately, I’ve been thinking about St. Louis. It was surprising how long the news lingered on that Midwestern city this summer, after the shooting of Michael Brown. Surprising that we all lingered there, as a country, for a span of…
On a Saturday morning in late July, a skinny teenager who still examined his face closely each morning, praying for any sign of hair growth, left the Bright Angel Lodge at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim in his VW Squareback.…
The much anticipated Millennium came and went; Y2K didn’t happen; the world would not start to fall apart in earnest for another 20 months, and I saw The Zephyr, as an economically viable business, peak… and then start a slow…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… I could quote Robert Frost, which may be uncool in this day…
EDITOR’S NOTE: For years, Ken Sleight was a regular columnist for this publication and his topics scanned the spectrum—from his passionate quixotic quest to restore Glen Canyon, to his opposition to nuclear waste in San Juan County. Ken also took…
Gail and I found the hamlet of Ruth, Nevada, on U.S. 50, 82 miles west of the Utah border. This tiny village is dwarfed by the massive outer shoulders of the Robinson open pit copper mine, just as mining towns…